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Black Act, 9 Geo. 1, c. 22 (English), so called because it was occasioned by the outrages committed by persons with their faces blacked or otherwise disguised, who appeared in Epping Forest, near Waltham, in Essex, and destroyed the deer there, and committed divers other enormities. Repealed by 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27.